Corporate social responsibility norms, emission targets, energy policy and innovation funding. The EU in many ways influences third countries by means of its legislative power.
By helping shape the norms set by “Brussels", you can effectively influence the EU’s priorities in alignment with your country’s interests. You learn how to do so in our one-day seminar on EU Third-Country Engagement.
The EU’s openness towards a wide range of stakeholders is key to its legislative’s legitimacy. Without input from all kinds of directions, Commission desk officers are not just less effective, but at risk of failing Impact Assessments left and right.
Desk officers, but also EU member states’ representatives in the Council, as well as Members of European Parliament, thrive on the data they receive from interactions with stakeholders. This offers unique opportunities for third-country engagement, especially for country representatives who know the EU’s legislative cycle well, and who work based on effective influencing tools.
Clingendael Academy in numbers
Clingendael Academy offers a broad array of introductory and advanced-level EU trainings that help you make sense of the Brussels’ bubble.
- 2500+ alumni for our EU trainings
- 30+ EU trainings yearly
- 20+ years of experience in delivering EU trainings
Who can participate?
The course is an open enrolment training for international diplomats, civil servants, policy makers as well as private sector professionals such as public affairs managers or consultants seeking to effectively influence the EU in any way or form from outside the EU.
To effectively partake take in this course, basic knowledge of the main EU institutions and the Brussels’ policy cycle is a prerequisite. The working language will be English.
When and where do the trainings take place?
The course will take place online on Friday 29 September 2023.
What will you learn?
In this course you will develop in-depth understanding of:
- Do’s and Don’ts in engaging with the EU as a third-country;
- The 7 steps to take in an effective third-country influencing;
- The differences in engaging with different EU actors;
- How your country’s interests relate to those of the EU;
- Recent geopolitical developments in the EU and future trends.
Furthermore, you will develop and reinforce the following skills:
- Effective interest representation in Brussels;
- Strategic networking and communication;
- EU Digital Data Management;
- Setting up an EU monitoring tool.
What methods will be used?
Our rich and diverse course is focused on providing you with a complete package of thematic knowledge, practical skills, and applied processes; this ‘Clingendael Method’ helps you understand the EU to the fullest.
The program is filled with interactive webinars on institutions and decision making, reflective workshops on negotiation and influencing skills, and discussions between participants and top experts on the biggest challenges and opportunities faced by the EU today.
Moreover, you will engage in tailor-made simulations on EU governance, receive access to a unique digital learning environment, and expand your professional network by getting to know your fellow participants as well as EU professionals.
Trainers
Christiaan Nelisse
Christiaan is een zeer ervaren trainer op het gebied van onderhandelen en de EU. Hij is gespecialiseerd in EU-processen en instituties en heeft gewerkt in Brussel als analist bij MLex Market Intelligence, voor het Europees Parlement en communicatieadviesbureau EPPA.
Additional information
The seminar will focus on third-country engagement efforts, on which a number of optional readings will be provided both prior to and following the seminar. After successful participation, you will receive a certificate.
Any questions?
Are you in doubt whether or not you possess the knowledge required of you? In that case, feel free to reach out to one of our EU trainers; Diederick van Wijk.
Register now
Are you interested in this course? Register via the webform. Looking forward to your participation.
More EU trainings at the Clingendael Academy
Clingendael Academy offers a broad array of introductory and advanced-level EU trainings that help you make sense of the Brussels’ bubble. In addition to these open enrolment courses, we also offer training that goes deeper into specific EU processes that are relevant to certain government agencies or other organisations, e.g. on the Presidency of the Council of the EU, EU accession negotiations, or effective influencing in the EU (in Dutch).
We organise several editions of Insight in Europe (in Dutch) per year for civil servants.
We have provided EU skills training and seminars to more than 2,500 professionals working both inside and outside the EU’s borders. In addition, EU affairs are an integral part of many of our diplomatic trainings and security-related programmes.
For our full range of trainings, please check out our Clingendael Academy brochure. Would you rather receive a tailor-made program? Please contact us with your request.
